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Gruesome and visceral, and even disgusting at times, all mixing in favor for its creativity and clever subject of approach, including the outstanding work of practical effects, this body-horror remake of the 50s classic outstands on its own with intelligence, compelling set up and a ingenious take in regards of the previous films, turning out to be one of David Cronenberg best films, and a complete accomplishment for both, horror films and remakes becoming ,for many, even more memorable than the previous versions.

Solid through and through. Cronenberg's practical effects are a welcome breath of fresh air in an era of green screen and computer generated everything. The classic movie makes the macabre and grotesque transformation feel real and helps the movie age with grace.Â A fun watch that isn't too scientifically taxing for the sci fan.

Only Cronenberg could remake the great B-movie original with as much humor as he does terror. The visual effects and makeup in the body horror is undeniable and supremely disgusting, but the way Goldblum's Brundle handles his transformation is dryly and unnervingly funny. Goldblum and Davis are both so great, and the way the movie peals away thematic layers of purity and sex and procreation goes far beyond the original. Gross goodness.

Though [The Fly] is quite revolting, the special effects for the time are phenomenal, and even with the technology this day, the special effects in this movie are far superior to mot CGI in horror movies today.

The Fly is hard to watch, in a good way. If anybody knows the grotesque, it's Cronenberg. The effects are spectacular, but they are also built on a tragic tale of Hubris. The Fly is a great film and I would highly recommend it.

Featuring great special effects/makeup that won the Oscar (for Best Makeup), great acting, a scary & dramatic story, & eerie settings, David Cronenberg's "The Fly" is one of the best horror films of all time & one of the best films of the 1980s! A magnificent horror film that will leave you disgusted, touched, & terrified - all at the same time!

the original fly starring Vincent price was as great film for it's day, the only problem i had with it was the fact that there's only one scene where the audience gets scared: the revelation of the fly. in this movie not only are there more scares, but we get to see Jeff Goldblum deteriorate into the now famous brundlefly. another highlight of the film was that it's not just a scary movie, it's also a tragedy about an inventor who went too far and it ruined his life.

Seth Brundle, a research scientist invents a way of teleportation, through two "Telepods". After successfully teleporting baboons, he proceeds to perform the teleportation himself,ignoring the fact that there is also a fly in the telepod with him. A marvelous work of makeup, for which it won an Academy Award and it is also pretty horrifying and disgusting as the creature grows inside his body.

Horrifying and disgusting and is definitely not for the faint of heart. But if you can look past the gore, it's really more of a tragedy than a monster movie and is one of the greatest movie remakes ever.

"The White-Headed Fly" of 1959 wins a remake at the hands of the great and stylish david cronenberg, long that had everything to be more a movie trash movie, or worse, to be a total joke, but the excellent direction of Croneberg removes all The risks of the film being bad, despite an absurd script, we have a movie style, transgressor and that goes from this comedy to suspense going through a good dose of science fiction. It tells the story of Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), a scientist who can find a way to teleport, and in the middle of his experiments he ends up merging his DNA with a fly, and ends up transmuting itself in the insect during the film. This is the script that Croneberg takes in his hand and the ciarra, and makes the trash, a cult. The rhythm of the film is completely linear, although the film is extremely short, it is well solved in what it claims to have, but it has a problem, it was not enough to develop the characters, numerous subplots are created, and none of them is solved. The film pincel deal with a moral about the human ego and the pursuit of professional accomplishment but ends up dealing with love, which is the same regardless of physical appearance, but it is nothing that we have not seen in 500 other films, which we We have not seen in 500 other films is his art direction, which is wonderful, with great and salve highlight the fly that is terrifyingly realistic in all its phases, spectacular work, all hi tech side of the film, which although it is cliché to Season, is very well worked out, and his gray photography does not let us lie that we are seeing a movie from the 80s. Just as jack nicholson already seemed crazy about this first scene of "The Enlightened One", Jeff Goldblum already seems a strange being from this The first scene of the film, this is not bad, its performance is good, and the same fulfills its role, the dramatic charge is more for Geena Davis, and she can handle and develop this load, not brilliantly, but Competently. "The Fly" will not be on the list of best movies, but its boldness and transgression are notorious, and the work of David Croneberg will always be remembered.

When people think Body Horror as a genre, they think of this film, and also films like Hellraiser. The basic plot of the film is that a man accidently fuses himself with a fly. The whole rest of the film we see him become the fly. Jeff Goldblum was great as the man becoming a fly. He was convincing as a man transforming into a monster. Geena Davis was great as the love interest scared for her love. She was convincing also. The music fit the film. The cinematography was interesting. Some interesting shots. The directing and writing were pretty good. The only downside of this film was that nothing really happened until he started to become the Fly. Overall, a great cult classic horror film that every horror fan should check out.